Mask Reviews

(BluR) No hay pierde con Bogdanovich hasta esta historia de virtudes que chillan siendo invisibles, y en esa tosquedad (opuesta a un Daisy Miller o Saint Jack,o a las comedias estilizadas y coreográficas) araña abismos humanos desde una apariencia de telefilme...

Not to be confused with 'The Mask' made almost 10 years later starring Jim Carrey, even though this movie wasn’t really original, I thought it was still a decent drama. In fact, this movie was quite a milestone for many players involved. Indeed, after ‘The Last Picture Show’ turned out to a huge critical success, many thought that Bogdanovich would become the next best thing. Unfortunately, his following movies were rather underwhelming but, with this movie, he made somewhat a come-back. For Cher, at the time, she was trying to launch her acting career and I have to admit that she was pretty good in this flick. Concerning Eric Stoltz, the upcoming actor got a huge blow after he was replaced by Michael J. Fox after shooting half of ‘Back to the Future ‘ but he got some critical acclaim for his performance in this movie. Coming back to our main feature, even though they all tried very hard to convince the viewers that the whole thing was quite edgy, in fact, it is a rather straightforward true life story but, even though I have never been a huge fan of the genre, I thought it was fairly well made and effective. To conclude, even though it might not be a masterpiece, I still think it is worth a look.